This delicious confection of a musical banishes the cares of the world with sublime songs and dynamic tap routines. A Gershwin-scored boy-meets-girl story and a love letter to old-school American showbiz, it’s fronted with brio by boyish, buoyant Charlie Stemp as Bobby Child, the Depression-era banking heir who dreams of being a Broadway hoofer.
Susan Stroman created a new dance vocabulary for the first production in 1992 and directs and choreographs this revival, which started at Chichester Festival Theatre last year and arrives in the West End with razzle-dazzle to spare. It’s a joy: just don’t squint at the plot too hard.
